2010 National Board of Review Awards announced

The 2010 National Board of Review Awards have been announced. I'll post soon an analysis of the results in Imitation of Life. Until then, here is the complete list of winners. You can compare it against my predictions, which are available in the previous entry of the blog.

Just one comment. Lesley Manville and Jacki Weaver have been named best actress and supporting actress, respectively. Does it get any better?

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Sundance champ Winter's Bone to be released in Europe

It's really annoying to leave a film festival with the pesky certainty that, after all the queuing and waiting, you're getting back home missing that one film you should have seen.
The seemingly endless film programme brochures don't help too much, since they usually praise the virtues of pictures that turn out to be disappointing and plainly describe those which in the end walk away as festival champs.

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